International Photography(ism) / 国际摄影（主义）

Jean Baudrillard (in Simulacra and Simulation) stated:"...This as the suggestion of the anthropologists themselves, who were seeing the indigenous people disintegrate immediately upon contact, like mummies in the open air."

In every language, "photography" means different things. In most Latin-based languages, "photography" means "drawing with light"; in Chinese, "摄影" means "capturing the shadow/light“; in Korean and Japanese, "사진술" and "写真" mean "writing of the real." Such distinguishments not only reveal the history of photography in each culture, but also a larger sense of how the philosophy of photography is proposed in various ways.

In this ongoing project, we extended the work Photography, and try to propose questions about the intricacies of photography and the world. The questions might change, decrease or increase as the project proceeds, but the essential element is to think about photography, culture and society globally and philosophically.

How does the meaning of photography unfold in various cultures?

How does photography marginalize "other" cultures as being a proxy of Eurocentric ideologies?

How does photography generate and lose meanings in the process of producing the landscape of knowledge and ideologies?